What Was It Like To Get Loved Up In Georgian England? with Dr. Sally Holloway

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This one’s for everyone who watched Bridgerton and wondered: could I get it in Georgian England?! Dr. Sally Holloway joins Jonathan to discuss the ins and outs of love and courtship in this era, including gifts and letters people would exchange, 18th century contraception, and the historical equivalents of ghosting and catfishing. Dr. Sally Holloway is a historian of gender, emotions, and visual and material culture over the long 18th and nineteenth centuries, and is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture (Oxford, 2019), which will be published in paperback in June. You can follow Dr. Holloway on Twitter @sally_holloway. Here are some visual resources to pair with the episode: “The Unwilling Bridegroom, or Forc’d Meat Will Never Digest” “Sympathetic Lovers” Eye Miniature 18th c. Sheep's Gut Condoms The love letter from William Martin to Hannah Smith, sent on February 15, 1714, is from the Hampshire Record office in Winchester, ref. 3M51/684. You can find their contact details here. Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by Middle Seat Digital. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous
0:04.7	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.4	On today's episode, I'm joined by Sally Holloway, where I ask her, what was it like to get
0:15.6	loved up in Georgian England? Welcome to Getting Curious as a Jonathan Van Ness, we have got
0:22.7	such a gorgeous, scintillating, sexy, history episode for you with none other than Dr. Sally Holloway.
0:31.2	Who is a historian of gender, emotions, and visual and material culture in Britain over the long
0:38.2	18th and 19th centuries? She is the author of the book The Game of Love in Georgian England.
0:44.6	Welcome to the show, Dr. Sally Holloway. How are you? Thank you. I wanted an introduction,
0:49.2	I wish I could be introduced like that every time I do any sort of public event.
0:54.0	Oh my gosh, I am totally, you know, around for announcement jobs, so like your people contact
0:59.8	my people and we'll get it all sorted out. So here's the thing, as my new man, business,
1:04.8	watching Bridgerton can politely obsessed along with the rest of the entire universe,
1:09.6	last Christmas holiday. Now the new season is upon us, and I am candidly kind of a slut,
1:18.7	and I just cannot imagine having all these rules and all of these like higher arcies around dating
1:25.5	and like not being allowed to be a slut and needing to be like a covert slut.
1:30.4	So I just have a lot of questions about what dating was like in Georgian England, and then we heard
1:34.8	about you and we were like, oh my god, you're the perfect person to tell us about it. I'm sorry,
1:38.5	I said slut three times already to like a British like a doctor and it's like, you know,
1:43.1	barely even 11 in the morning, but yes, I know that you can't answer these things for us.
1:47.3	So what we're looking at broadly speaking is the Georgian era. It's running from the
1:52.4	coronation of Georgia first in 1714 right through to the death of Georgia 4th in 1830, and so
1:58.5	Bridgerton is sort of at the tail end of that period, it's what we call the Regency era,
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